A man whose house in Belfast was \u201ccompletely\u201d destroyed during rioting in Belfast last night said he lost heirlooms left to him by his late father.<\/p>\n
Jamie Corry, who has lived on Lendrick Street in the east of the city since 2013, said cars parked near his house were targeted last night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI came out that door and I told them: \u2018This is my property, this is my property here,\u2019 and then they started to light the red car up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo once I saw the flames starting to get bigger and bigger, I moved away from my property. I moved down the street there and watched it all. The next minute the cars started to explode, the doors started smoking, the windows started melting, and the next thing the house was going to go up on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
He returned to the house on Wednesday morning and said he found possessions are destroyed, including items belonging to his late father.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s destroyed, top to bottom it\u2019s completely destroyed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Asked what happens next, he said he would go to the Housing Executive, which runs social housing in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know where to start,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m just glad my family, my kids were around at my missus\u2019 house at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man whose house in Belfast was \u201ccompletely\u201d destroyed during rioting in Belfast last night said he lost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[160074,1334,924,59,57,58,2559,160075,290,50,3283,56,225,54,55],"class_list":["post-632013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-apple-news-free","tag-belfast","tag-crime","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-knife-crime","tag-live-priority","tag-migrants","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-uk","tag-uk-news","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}